Creeds - God Father maker of Heaven and Earth

Scout Oath On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Scout Law The Scout Law has 12 points. Each is a goal for every Scout. A Scout tries to live up to the Law every day. It is not always easy to do, but a Scout always tries. A Scout is: TRUSTWORTHY. Tell the truth and keep promises. People can depend on you. LOYAL. Show that you care about your family, friends, Scout leaders, school, and country. HELPFUL. Volunteer to help others without expecting a reward. FRIENDLY. Be a friend to everyone, even people who are very different from you. COURTEOUS. Be polite to everyone and always use good manners. KIND. Treat others as you want to be treated. Never harm or kill any living thing without good reason. OBEDIENT. Follow the rules of your family, school, and pack. Obey the laws of your community and country. CHEERFUL. Look for the bright side of life. Cheerfully do tasks that come your way. Try to help others be happy. THRIFTY. Work to pay your own way. Try not to be wasteful. Use time, food, supplies, and natural resources wisely. BRAVE. Face difficult situations even when you feel afraid. Do what you think is right despite what others might be doing or saying. CLEAN. Keep your body and mind fit. Help keep your home and community clean. REVERENT. Be reverent toward God. Be faithful in your religious duties. Respect the beliefs of others.

Christian Creeds

Apostles’s Creed

Nicene Creed - Further explaining the relationship of the Father and Son

Athanasian Creed - describing the Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Creeds help us to set a foundation of our Faith, boundaries in our faith and a guide to our faith

The Rule of Faith

The rule of faith appears in a number of patristic authors in a remarkably consistent way and was used as a benchmark by which teachings could be measured. One of the earliest explanations of the rule of faith is found in the works of Irenaeus of Lyons (120–202). In 180 AD he wrote Against Heresies

Quotes about the Apostles’ Creed

The Apostles’ Creed was the most excellent, he felt, for it summarized befly and correctly the articles of faith.

Martin Luther (Founder of the German Reformation)

Sometime between 150 and 250 in Rome, Christological sequences were inserted into the trinitarian formula used for Christian baptisms, thus giving rise to the Apostles Creed (in the form of the Old Roman Creed).

Charles P. Arand; James A. Nestingen; Robert Kolb

Info about the Apostles’ Creed

The Lexham Bible Dictionary (The Old Roman Creed)

The Old Roman Creed

An early version of what later became the Apostles’ Creed, called the “Old Roman Creed,” was in use as early as the second century (Kelly, Creeds, 101). The earliest written form of this creed is found in a letter that Marcellus of Ancyra wrote in Greek to Julius, the bishop of Rome, about AD 341. About 50 years later, The title “Apostles’ Creed” is also mentioned about 390 by Ambrose, where he refers to “the creed of the Apostles which the Church of Rome keeps and guards in its entirety” ( Over the next few centuries, the Apostles’ Creed in its final form gained acceptance throughout France and Germany. It was officially recognized by Charlemagne throughout the Frankish Empire in the early ninth century, and was eventually incorporated into the liturgy of the Church of Rome.

The creed as it exists today consists of three main articles, like the Old Roman Creed divided according to a Trinitarian arrangement. The text is as follows (Kelly, Creeds, 369):

Reading of the Day

Psalm 8 (ESV)

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

to still the enemy and the avenger.

Mt 21:12–17 (ESV.”

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,

“ ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies

you have prepared praise’?”

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.

Psalm 8

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under his feet,

1 Co 15:12–34 (ESV)

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

Hebrews 2:5–9

(ESV)

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere,

“What is man, that you are mindful of him,

or the son of man, that you care for him?

You made him for a little while lower than the angels;

you have crowned him with glory and honor,

putting everything in subjection under his feet.”

Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Psalm 8

all sheep and oxen,

and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Quotes to End

We can bless God by praising him, extolling him, desiring all honor for him, ascribing all good to him, magnifying and lauding his holy name. Blessing For Blessing, Volume 38, Sermon #2266 - Ephesians 1:3, 4

Charles Spurgeon

I do not, as Peter and Paul, issue commandments to you. They were apostles; I am just a condemned man.

Ignatius of Antioch

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Prayer

Heavenly Father, we stand in awe of Your creation, as proclaimed in Psalm 8, and rejoice in the creeds that affirm our faith in You, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth. May we be bold in sharing this faith with those around us, and may it be a guiding light for the next generation. Grant us the wisdom and courage to live out Your truth daily, reflecting Your glory in all we do. Amen